title: Cerebral infarction on 99mTc-MDP SPECT/CT imaging.
abstract: A 70-year-old man with lung cancer underwent whole-body MDP bone scintigraphy to evaluate bone metastases that showed marked tracer uptake in the right side of the head, suggestive of skull metastasis. SPECT/CT imaging was performed for further evaluation. The SPECT images demonstrated increased MDP activity in the region of the brain perfused by the right middle cerebral artery. On CT images, there was a large hypoattenuation area corresponding to elevated MDP accumulation. At the same day, magnetic resonance angiography of the brain revealed occlusion of the right middle cerebral artery.
authors.affiliation: From the Department of Nuclear Medicine, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
authors.forename: Jia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.forename: Shuang
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.forename: Haitao
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Anren
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kuang
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D013669:Technetium Tc 99m Medronate; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
chemical_list: D013669:Technetium Tc 99m Medronate